Three Haitian bus drivers who ply the Mahaut to Roseau route are calling on the police to address a situation in which they say they were threatened by Dominican bus drivers who claim they are not authorized to do business at the bus stop in Roseau.
The Haitian drivers said the situation has gotten to the point of physical altercations between the two parties and they say they now fear for their lives.
Frantso Moise told Dominica News Online that the situation began in June when new regulations, which included a bus stop on River Street, were put in place for bus drivers plying the route.
“The first day of the new bus stop police came across the bridge and they said nobody should pick up passengers there. So we had to go in the line to wait our turn … I went in the bus stop and the Mahaut drivers say they don’t want Haitians in the bus stop …. I didn’t worry I stayed there and them man fight with me, they block my bus,” Moise claimed.
Moise said he was shocked at the situation.
“I didn’t know what to do because I couldn’t believe what was happening …. I have been driving Mahaut passengers for three years and now this is happening … the bus drivers say they have many buses on the road and is only me and two Haitian drivers that there,” he said.
According to Moise all attempts to get to get the traffic department to resolve the matter have been unsuccessful.
Another Haitian Bus driver Elison Casimire said he was also threatened by several Dominican bus drivers.
“I paying my licenses like everyone one else … I am legal in this country and I cannot make my daily bread … that is not fair, I have been driving bus for three years now in Mahaut … What Haitians do Dominicans? I don’t understand … one bus driver told me that if people wasn’t around he would take me and throw me for no one to find me. The authorities need to do something,” he said.
Mayor of Roseau, Cecil Joseph, has gotten involved in the matter and is appealing to the police to intervene. He blamed the issue on ‘social politics.’
“What they are doing is wrong in trying to prevent another person from making bread rather than trying to see how they can curb it. I am not happy about it. I know the Haitian drivers have been on that route for a few years now so why there is a problem with them? I believe that the (Bus Drivers) Association headed by the President is playing social politics in this thing,” he said.
Attempts by DNO to get a response from the traffic department on the matter have proven futile so far, while several Dominican bus drivers have refused to comment publicly on the matter.
I say we need an unbiased head of the Bus Driver Association….If the person who is there is playing a social politics….throw them out.
If the law allows it and it is not illegal, the Mauhaut Bus Driver(s) who have been harrassing these Haitian drivers needs to be reprimanded.
I am sure almost every Dominican has a family member who lives and works abroad without harrassment.
Let’s take a srand for equality and justice for all in Dominica
Stop, stop, stop. Let’s stop being so evil minded. Dominicans are all over the world. We are not all illegal, some of us are US citizens. I work with Haitians. I am their boss and we have no problem. I just do not tolerate people who behave like they are better than me. No, No , No. Is Dominica I come from and I stand tall and proud. Well educted, love DA, live in USA. Please people, one people, God made us all. Live and let live.
For the person using St. Kitts as an example, there are several Dominicans and their families I know personally who make up the population of St. Kitts… so we contribute to there economic “success” let the Hatians contribute to ours.
Some of them bus drivers too troublesome and like to make scene. If them man coming in the line what is wrong with letting them wait their turn like everyone else???? At the end of the day everyone needs someone, them Haitians have their bus, they trying to make a living for themselves, i don’t why they have to get on like uncivilized individuals.
some dominicans too comparason. they doing like they donot go in plp country and try to make a living. alot of them poorer than the haitains yet they call them names and try to fight them bc dominican women are living their lazy a+++sss for haitains. jealousy. God will deal with u all . we r our brothers keeper
send them back in there country
my take on this is,certain jobs should be left for indigenous d/cans, persons born in d/ca.. Would a dominican be allowed to be a bus driver in Haiti. With the global economic situation being what it is, countries need to protect jobs for its indigenous citizens, and dominca should not be an exception.
That is about as silly a comment as it gets… Dominicans are in many different professions all over the world including yes, bus driving and taxi operating. This is discrimination and we should not stand for it. Name one Dominican who doesn’t have a family member working over seas… just one…
so let them send home the 30000 dominicans who are living elsewhere?
@ Mahalia
You have got to be kidding me.
This gentleman (referrig to the Haitian driver) seems like a very responsible man to me. He took the steps toward self employment, he is following the police directions in picking up passengers at the delegated bus stop. He is paying his taxes and licenses like every one else.
In trying to form the line, as he was instructed by the Police Department, he is assaulted and threatened.
And you have a nerve to make such a ridicuous comment.
If sounds like, what he is doing is legal.
He goes to seek assistance and the no one is protecting him.
The Bus Driver Association Leader is playing the ‘social game’
Let’s be real.
If there be justice in this country. We need to hear from the Bus Driver Association!!!
We demand justice for the Haitian Drivers…
To all the foreign based Dominicans (who are only Dominicans when its voting time), Nobody asked allu to go to another persons country to live.
Because You chose to go in another man’s land does not give you the privilege to demand that Dominica need to be flooded with foreigners, against the wishes and comfort of those residing there.
Dominicans usually go to places which are economically buoyant and can sustain them and their people. The migrants who are coming here unregulated and unchecked are a strain on the system. Initially they were welcomed, however the resources are running low and so is the patience of the hosts, yet the migrants come by the hundreds weekly.
Dominica does not need more people now, it definitely needs more jobs. If the economy was booming the bus drivers will not even notice a few extra Haitians, but it is not.
St. Kitts have 1/2 the pop. of d/a and its economy is about 3 times larger, so population is not a factor. it is quality not quantity that matters.
BTW could somebody say why Dominica has more Haitians than all the rest of the OECS put together?
Flooded? Really? Did you hear the results of the last census dude? Dominica is severely underpopulated and still in decline. St. Kitts economy was built on sugar and tourism… you know? White sand beaches and the Marriott? Our terrain cannot support that… I cannot believe the level of intolerance coming from you people. Shame! The places Dominicans go to…the economically vibrant ones? Yeah they have the same complaint about us being a strain on their economy too… whats your point?
Dominicans driving buses in other people country, so why are they giving those Haitian bus drivers a hard time. In St.Martin there are some many DA bus drivers.As long as they are not breaking any laws let them man work for there money too.
some of our bus drivers to comparrasion right now because of the measures they have in place,they no the bus will be filled with passengers doh matter what they dont really like kids to come and full their buses, they fill to themselves they will not make much money for their trip the hatians will not play heavy on our kids.our bus drivers would pick up fly before for passengers.but they want to run the hatians because they give better service
Check how many buses on the mahaut route are owned by mahaut ppl?
2 those dominicains who say all kind of negatives things about o those haitiens hope that u all do not have any family overseas, 4 the amount of things some young dominicains doing guadeloupe and elswhere is also a shame 4 we dominicains living in these countries and 2 work some times u hear so many bad things and u are asham 2 say that u are from that country they critize . So before we sit and critize these poeple think of what some of our people are doing on other people country ,let those men work 2 eat and maintain there family .
Form a Co-operative, that way all will get a share of the pie. If there are more buses than passengers, a quota of buses should be aimed for.
If you providing the right customer service at the price what is there fear. This is what competition is all about. If you can not deal with fire stay away from the smoke.
Another “CALYPSO” for the writers…I counting down the stories…Pat don’t have to go too far from DNO to get inspiration to write songs boi. I wonder if that is why “MAS Camp” will not be in Harlem Plaza next year?…oops (cat out of the bag)…
TBC…
mahaut bus drivers have too much roro… they have roro by cruise ship, roro on airport, roro in mahaut with all bus drivers that not from mahaut, and now, they have roro with haitian… if is me i will work them some voodoo… live them haitian alone garson mahaut
Here you are condoning the evil voodoo that the Haitian people for many years generation to generation putting on people even their own, for you to be saying that you want them to put voodoo on Dominican, if this is the case Dominicans need to run them back where they come from, because if it the table have to turn around and it was in Haiti, they would not take it lightly they would run those occupying the country out, with the same voodoo you talked about
I am not condoning what the bus drivers are doing, because as the saying goes all shall eat
@MONA
When Dominica reach a state where Dominicans are encouraging Haitiens to put voodoo on fellow Dominicans then u have a formula for disaster. How unpatriotic can one stoop?
Its attributes like this that have haitiens having unwelcome status in the other caribbean islands. Voodoo/obeah etc is nothing to boast about especially when you a a guest in another country.
You didn’t read what them Haitians say man? them bus drivers almost fight with them wi, that is totally unnecessary and uncalled for. I sure if someone was harassing you, you would not just stay there like a tebeh and take it.
Just asking i wonder if Dominican can go to haitian country to drive bus get them out they soon take our country that what they do every country they go who care
Wow. Personas actually understood this comment to like or dislike it?
hahhaahahhaaaha!
I took my precious time to read all these craps about how The Dominicans people are treating my Fellow Haitians.
You know all what that burn me , I came to Dominica since 2006 and my Dad was there before me I attended One The High School in Town . I am not going to bring down my values of what people are saying I am an Educated person , i live there for six years and going to seven years. Before i came to Dominica I have met so many Dominicans friends in Haiti and up to now we are friend these guys talking so good about my Country ,the way the Haitian people have treated him down in Haiti . When i am looking at these foolish coment most of you made about Haitians although tears run out my eyes I am still standing strong and i will always pray God for deliverance.
And I want to leave this message in to your hands
You the foolish person that have made so many negative comments , I would to ask you Have you ever travel from any part of the Caribbean or Further and do you have any Family Members ? How many times have they cried to you over the phone by saying how they have been treating by others ? and how do you feel by that ?
Answer these
Thank you
let us be real the hatian are people like ourselves too, they have a family to feed to, put yourself in their place, migrate just to st maarten and be like the hatian and let the st maarten treat you the same way you treating the hatian feel the pain and the agony they are going through why I say that Befor I came up to the states I was treated real badly from my own people form my country and today I am not showing them the same thing I am letting them see am different so dear country show that you all are different you all will need help one day is not dominica alone you all will stay
I quite agree, however, they need to leave the voodoo in haiti when they leave their country. And when they meet a place clean they need to leave it clean. They too nasty
dominicans doing voodoo too. even u hating plp is a sin. a sin is a sin so stop judging. if u check ur history n caribbean history on whole u would learn how to appreciate plp rather than tell them wat to change in their culture. voodoo id even part of ur heritage bc u r black. check ur history
MC has a good point. It is good that they are able to come in and fulfil their “American Dream” in our Dominica. On the other hand I think they are using Dominicans and Dominica as a passport (literally and figuratively). When I visit my home country Dominica, I do not know who is who anymore, they are just all over and taking over everything. Some of them like most men have no respect for women and this has nothing to do with how one is dressed with little of much clothes on….it’s all the same. We cannot compare Dominica to the Western world and not even to the other islands in the Caribbean because we just do not have the resourses…. It is already a struggle to sustain the population as it was and is and with all our young people like myself trying to keep ylurself together…Dominica will soon become another Haiti. This will surely be a sad situation. I cannot even fathom the thought. As I said, it is good that we are able to help them but there should be a limit…the driving is only one aspect. Take a strong look at our culture (religion, education, dance, music)…I do not think that we want to lose this. With the greater influx, our cultural, moral, religious values…..wil be affected. We sell our passport and we sell ourselves….to whom and or to what. We are already begging all over the world for assistance..look at us.. I think this is enough already. We cannot keep Dominica afloat and we want to look good; does not make much sense. There need to be boundaries as with everything alse.
Leave the HATIANS alone. Who gave them the license toute bauche ni pour mangé war is not the answere.
As far as i am concerned, Bus Driver = accident/ traffic Jam. Now they trying to represent incident/ national stupidity.
Idiots. =_=”
Whether Dominican or Haitian, we are all Africans in the diaspora. Our forefathers were all brought out of Africa into the West and as a result of slavery we still cannot unite as a people because of the separation that occured during that time; that slave mentally has been ingrained in us. We need to realise that we are all brothers and sisters and need to live in harmony like our forefathers did before they were taken as captives. We may think that we are free but that negroe mentally still exist. Like our brother Bob Marley said, “emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.”
When we migrate to other countries don’t we work in these countries once the jobs are available? What is the big deal if our Haitian brothers do the same thing? We need to stop having petty minds and engaging in foolish behaviour. The bottom line is that we need to grow up.
if we look at the like vs dislike ratio we will see that it is not the majority of Dominicans who hold to the view that Haitians should be marginalized but the minority. I am of the belief that if they have been granted citizenship it means that they would have met some minimum requirement, and legally they are just as much a Dominican under the constitution as any one of us, and that also applies to our Asian brothers and sisters.
We say all sorts of bad things about the Chinese for instance, when our own children are in China obtaining a world class education. Would you like it if your children were treated as we treat them? It is partly that attitude we posses towards foreigners why we do not attract as much investment as our neighbours. Dominica in my opinion is under-populated, it imposes a stress on the government to service all this infrastructure with so little human resource. Dominica is more than just a glass, it may not be a river but it is more than just one glass of water.
It is sad to hear about this situation with the Haitians, It is not right for any human being to be treated in that manner. But let’s face it; with a small shrinking economy we should expect that. It’s not only the Haitians who get those treatments, we had a situation on the stop farm college route with our own Dominican bus drivers fighting for turfed, who from good will and who is not .Personal I think the Haitians are getting good treatment in Dominica, compare to some of the other Caribbean countries, like Guadeloupe and others who are supposed to embrace them. It is not fear to make the comparison of bus drivers in the states and Canada; we are talking about big economies and well-structured systems.
I think our system is slack and it gives room for foreigners to take advantage over the citizens and country’ .majority of foreign people who come to this island, not interested in it, therefore we must structure the system so our people can better develop themselves and by do so we will be able to accommodate and accept others in a more humane way. BLESS
What has happened to my people? It looks like we have made the material gain we have made go up to our head. Could we please get back to the basics of life? Isn’t the Hatian a man? Isn’t the man or woman from the Dominican Republic a creature coming from the hand of the creator? Over the years we as Dominican(english speaking) have lost our brotherly love and kind. We watching too much American tv, stop being copy cats of foolish. There are Dominican bus drivers in Gwada, St. Lucia, St.Thomas, England and so much more places on the globe. Information for you all, Before the internet made the world a global village, Dominican had already done that, because there is a Dominican in every country in world. As a matter of fact the concept of global village was borrowed from us.
So please could we try to tolerate someone else at our home. Just as we want our families leaving out there to live and to help us live by sending some of what they make out there, please allow the hard working Hatians to live. Who knows probably you there fighting the Great Great Great great Great Great to the 10th power cousin that was sent to Haiti when they separated us. So let stop eating one another.
Woy, Dominicans too xenophobic and have no idea how to treat people. We have no manners neither etiquette. Lesson learnt. The three Haitians must be hired to teach the drivers how to keeep the passengers happy and satisfied ! then they move to the airport, ministries, police station and stores. Then the rest of the country.
Haiti I am not feeling sorry for you, because you are going to make a lot of money soon. Just check the officer in charge and you will get a job to transport some of the government officials to and from the airport, Already your bus is sprayed in red!
That is the best thing for you to say? smfh. You know how badly off you have to be for you to leave your home, family, loved ones and come to a foreign country and work to help support your family? I hope when you in your time of struggle someone will feel sorry for you and try to help you.
no doe go traffic department for information because u might get a ticket.i doe know who train those last set of police there all they doing is just give people ticket in town it have a woman police and a man police from portsmouth dere just there puting ticket on people transport.befor somebody park in a corner is ticket go and check the bloody busstop.no bloody discrestion!
There are lots of Haitians in Dominica, so the Haitian bus drivers can arrange with them to bring them to and from Roseau. No problem, I am sure they will make a lot of money. Also they can make shuttle, say from Save A Lot, Whitchurch or shillingford to and from the different bus stops. So Haitians stop crying and think of other ways and means to run your bus.You might end up making more money than the Mahaut bus drivers.
Haitians always think that they need to get special treatment from other, where as they treat others like garbage in Haiti, no wonder those from the Dominican Republic do not want them in their country to occupy and demand
stupes!!!!!! have u been to haiti?
Some Mahuat bus drivers are ignorant and stupid, most of the ignorant there are those that call themselves Christians.what u wouldn’t want for yourself or your your children in the future. Need to come together and stop the fighting.
so this is my people…we live all over the world and you do this; what if we were treated that way out here; even worse to a neighbouring caribbean country…u guys should be ashamed
But Mahaut drivers of all people? Sometimes I can’t even tell who is Haitian and who is from Mahaut.. Why are we as a people so bloody ignorant and prejudice. What makes Mahaut people any better off than Haitians? Dominica is a loving place. While everyone is fleeing Dominica, Haitians are coming in there and make it a place worth living. So those Mahaut Drivers need to stop it now. They are making us Dominicans look bad.
Sometimes when some Dominicans are in the USA they are mistaken for Haitians because of their accents. This means that we all look and sound alike, we are one… One caribbean people.
CAN WE ALL JUST GET ALONG
The president of the mahaut bus association is not from Mahaut.So if they are saying no outsiders he should be the first one to go.
Chinese working we vex, Haitians working we vex,
White man working we kissing there behind.
Dominica can never move forward with that present generation of Dominicans NEVER
Haitian want to drive bus make dem man drive bus.
Last time i check D/ca is a free country.
The reason they there for 3 yrs is because Dominicans riding there bus which means there are no problems.
If it have to much bus Mahaut go and turn pilot n fly plane.
We must never forget we all got family working foreign and we will not like dem to be treated that way so we must humble.
If them haitians are not doing anything wrong and are just legal and trying to make a living i don’t think they should be harrased by anyone i wonder how we dominicans would feel if we were in a situation like this i mean common man i from mahaut n mahaut self have a set of bus drivers smh
Dominicans business owners need to learn how to compete. Instead of finding ways to attract more passengers, they want to kill the competition.
Thats not how business operate anymore.
Do you know why the Banana industry failed? Because we didn’t find ways to compete. Instead we sat on our laurels begging England for preferential treatments. How long would that hold up?
Bus drivers need to become creative to attract more customers.
If other Dominicans were not riding the Haiti buses, then they would have been out of business, but since the population use there services, its fair game.
Learn to compete!
Maybe offer a later service. During the day the bus stop is overflowing, but at nights, not one bus.
I was in Dominica recently and guess who was making the routes at night? a Haitian. So these business driving need a COURSE in BUSINESS!
e bor pou yoh…. d yo allay haiti pou drive bus yo…
(aim to get the most dislikes ever on dno)
some dominicans are too racist they a the same complexion with us god created all of us the same blood run through our veins why fight them we goes to other people”s country too you know or we have families in forigne also if they treat us the same how would we feel meaning do unto others as you would like them do onto you,if you can’t love god’s creation how can you say you love god
@Teacher. Are you in the USA to take away the Americans jobs, or are you there to advance yourself economically? You seem to be thinking just like some Americans who thinks that foreigners are coming to take their jobs from them.
Your reasoning demonstrates a deficiency in basic racial integration and unity.
Portsmouth and Grandbay I want 50 Haitian bus drivers to drive their route next and then all over Dominica. Yippee!!! Go Hatians… Next Chinese Bus Drivers. Yay!!! Go Chinese…
Every man has an equal right to be free,no matter what colour, class or race he may be. ONE LOVE, Faceup !!!
Portsmouth and Grandbay I want 50 Haitian bus drivers to drive their route next and then all over Dominica. Yippee!!! Go Hatians…
I am a Dominican living in the U.S Virgin Islands an I drive bus and no one harrasses me. I am not the only Dominican here that drive the bus could you imagine how we would feel if St Thomas people start to treat us the way these ignorant fools treating the haitians? Come on people. I am sure these fools that harassing the people, they themselves have family members all over the world in someone else country, working and living peacefully.
sure but that is not the point…the issue goes much deeper than that. go and experience home a little and you may understand a little better.
Tears Tears
OMG I did not know Is dat way some of Dominicans want to be…
I wonder if anyone of you that talking do not have any one outthere working , how they get treat. Tell me
What Haitian People Have done to you all
And prejudice as well as ignorance and jealousy prevails regardless of color.
To my understanding Mahaut have over 100 buses on their line. That’s too much buses for an area with such a low fee.But Mahaut bus drivers really have issues. They fighting with Haitain, they fighting with Canefield bus driver. They fighting among themselves. That why people will come out where they come out from other villages and people will still bachay them. Because they all about themselves.
The selfishness and jealousy continues. This is not a very cordial island.
haitians do not like DOMINICA i didnt say dominicans, they are jus using our resources! they become dominincan nationals but dont consider themselves dominicans, they have a jealousy towards dominican people, they were openly welcomed in the beginning but brought with them their animosity! haitians are causing trouble in every country they migrate not only dominica!
I CONCUR
Tell them MC, when it is all said and done sooner or later Dominicans will find out who is their enemy and who is their friend, obviously Haitians are not friends of Dominicans, it just because they cannot do/have no other choices they are coming to DA
pure ignorance. There are Dominicans who live in America who does not like America except for the resources. What’s your point?
nonsense. Dominicans cause trouble with other Dominicans too. No need to become so bias. Dominicans need a higher level of Tolerance. The bus drivers are so selfish it is not funny. One will overtake another recklessly and risk passengers lives just to BAWAY another passenger a little ahead. I’ve seen in too may times near the Pottersville savannah
Thanks for the thumbs down for those who give it. But Haitians are people too, God loves them just like he loves us too. Give the people a Chance
didn’t know… couldn’t care. All humans are the same to me… I am unbiased in the sense, u cross me and that’s your last cross.
why is it that you guys waste so much time on talking nonsense and less time on curbing the problem. i am in foreign, have lots of dominican bus drivers who do their business freely, even illegal gypsy taxi; just reach home on one(a dominican). why bother the haitians? once they have the relevant documents needed to operate let them survive. and for the record not only Haitians cause trouble in someone elses country. presently there are two Dominicans serving life sentences for so called “gypsy taxi” murders.
Very ignorant comment!
The Haitian needs to go to Police Headquarters to file a complaint, not traffic department. If you are legal in the country and have a license to operate a Bus, then the Police should investigate the incident.
The Chinese are taking over Roseau and causing local businesses to close and there’s no quarrel about that, but the Haitians who are our Caribbean neighbors are being threatened. SHAME D/CANS!!
its because the Chinese aren’t black. black hate other blacks more than anything else.
That’s why the drivers do not want they Haitians to take over, because they want to do the same as the Chinese thanks to skerrit
Precisely my point. You hit the nail on the head
lol… They are called the “infiltration”. Haitians, Chinese and Latinos( Spanish).
This was said by a D/can other than myself. Just had to share. lol.
Good luck with the police.
So complaining about the Chinese is just fine? Really? Ignorant ass..
In the late 1950s and 60s Dominican men/women migrated to the UK and ended up working for the transport services, on the tubes and buses (my Dad for one). Yes they encountered racism, but once it was established that they were there to work and worked hard, they were accepted.
Some of us have problems with the Chinese, Haitians, who will we pick on next. There are thousands of Dominicans living and working abroad, should they get the same treatment we dish out to those who choose Dominica as their home.
in 2012 with the poverty level and unemployment rising at an alarming rate, do you think it was wise for the government to bring in poorer people in our communities to compete with us?.
When dominicans immigrated to uk in the 50s and 60s they went there as british subject. It was the motherland and dominica the colony. So don’t go comparing apples and oranges. 99.9% of haitiens who come here come here illegally. They have already displaced all the market vendors from the roseau market. They came took over thier stalls and threaten to obeah them if they protest, so the dominican vendors who have been in the market for decades left for them and are now unemployed, so I hope you are happy now.
I believe those Haitians 100%. Dominicans can be very prejudice. It’s just like those African-Americans that can’t stand other black people. Haitians are people to and should be treated with respect. Then again Dominicans now don’t even respect themselves. Yes I said it! You all aren’t better blacks. You are a negro just like the Haitians. You drive a bus. Nothing special about driving a bus. These people are trying to make a living. Of course they should do so in accordance with the law but the berating them in public and instigating altercations just because they’re Haitians only shows that you all are cowards and simply pathetic. What a shame!
I agree!!
Just now that country have to get one bad wave a prostitution, with all them poor foreigners all you brining inside.
it happening already!!
well, if you are correct, who will be the purchasers? If you claim that the poor immigrants will sell their bodies for money, then that would mean Dcans will be the purchases…
So what is your point?
Are you actually that dumb? My point is that will create a problem, Jeez. I swear your kind is really backwards, I simply stated a fact and get loads of dislikes. Guess i should do like some people *Not calling names* and lie for people’s approval.
agree with you and those who dislike are not seeing the big picture….it is already happening. come on people, look at us; the honorable prime minister all over begging for Dominica and we want to play big shot and help with scraps or become one? we cannot give what we do not have but we can surely get what we do not have….
Bigorty, prejudice and racism are all symptoms of small minds …just saying.
Wonder why Dominica is so backward? Look at it’s people – many of them are small minded and can’t think for themselves or beyond what’s in front of them.
Dominica does not function in isolation – the world is watching.
Everything is upside down and inside out in this country …where is the basic humane aspect of the so called humans?
Basic human aspect is small minds. lol.
Natural Humans = destruction, hatred and easily swayed beings.
“Brought up” Humans = Hatred, jealousy, two-faced, judgemental( or not) and rarely friendly.
These angry bus drivers are maybe listening to too much Q95 and lennox?
So I hear it is so I writing it…No Name No Warrant
Especially in Giraudel
maybe they used signals, didn’t stop anywhere they chose often with no brake lights in rear, and don’t act like they own the road?
Good 1. Love it~!! LAWL
This is truly a banana republic with plantation masters in charge.I think people have lost the moral and ethical sanity in this place. May God have mercy on the few remaining patriots in this land and for thier sake, heal this divided nations. I tknow there are more than 5 that are righteous politically, so spare the nation for their sake
I am Dominican and for the life of me cannot understand why Dominicans in general are so ignorant to change and migration. There are more Dominican immigrants in other countries than in Dominica itself. Some of the same bus drivers talk about travelling yet they don’t seem to realise that once you board an airport you become a foreigner. Those ignorant fools need to appreciate integration for this back in the ages country of ours to move forward. Don’t worry soon they will start to attack the chines; they’ll be coming by the plane load. SMFAU
that’s the point, we have nothing to sustain our own…no resourses to offer the world market, the prime minister begging for funds and we are still so generous
…..tell me what I do not know.
As a Dominican living in the USA, I empathize with the Dominican Bus Drivers, but I don’t condone their approach to the issue.
It is an unfair comparison between Dominicans living in the USA and Haitians living in Dominica. The USA is the world’s largest economy, and the largest inhabited country. Although there are 600 million people in the USA, there will always be opportunities for EVERYONE to succeed.
Dominica, on the other hand, is very small economically, and geographically. There are very limited resources available for Domincans to advance themselves, pay bills, and to feed their families. Therefore, Haitians, Chinese, etc., who migrate to Dominica to take away from Dominicans what is already very limited resources, is understandably a big, troubling issue for many Dominicans.
If you share a glass of water between two thirsty people, their thirst will most likely be quenched. Share that same glass of water with ten people . . . they will all be still thirsty.
But if all ten people go to the river to drink, then they will ALL quench their thirst.
To Domincans, Dominica is a GLASS of water, and they are ALL thirsty. Countries like the USA, Canada, England, etc., on the other hand are abundant RIVERS of water with enough for EVERYONE.
I have no personal negative feelings toward foreigners living in Dominica, but they need to understand why many Dominicans feel that they are taking away from their livelihood.
I’m proud to be Dominican, and I will always pray for good things for my Country and my people.
Jah Bless!
so then if Antigua and the VI, where there are thousands of Dominicans living, decide to use this same dumb argument that you just used, then its OK?
secondly what kind of teacher could you possibly be if you are so undereducated that you don’t know that the US population is 300 Million and not the 600 that you said? and to make matters worst you said that the US is the largest inhabited country. did you even study geography at the rudimentary level? China and India both exceed 1 billion in population. you have demonstrated ignorance, selfishness and general stupidity with your illogical “Glass of water” analogy.
You must be kidding me. You took all this time writing a long piece of junk?
Immigrants build the USA. check history. It is a shame that you an immigrant and share those views. This tells me that you are one of those who failed to grow.
Study economics before you try to discuss economic issues.
And the USA population is not 600Million.
It’s 312m.
Dear teacher, the population of the United States of America is about 313 millions. The USA are the third largest populated country in the World far behing China and India.
That’s no excuse for jealousy predjudice and bad manners.
Pure BS…if there is enough for everyone in America to succeed why are there so many hundreds of thousands unemployed? Guess you are not keeping abreast of what is happening. Let me confirm the unemployed figures in the USA as of today.
“Approximately 12.5 million workers remain idled. Of those, five million workers are considered long-term unemployed, having been jobless for 27 weeks or longer. The long-term unemployed account for 40 percent of the unemployed.”
America is no longer the land of milk and honey because every single nation has been affected by the economic downturn.
USA population = 314 million
Wow,I do not know where to categorize that kind of mind set or thinking of yours making such an analogy, but i must say it is all based on ignorance and fear and this is very sad believing and harboring such belief. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
It seems to me that you do not understand what a livelihood is. Let me me tell you, livelihoods are made and not given to us, it is not something that is reserved. Livelihoods are made through vision, ingenuity, creativity and innovation. The divine principle which governs this universe is always on the side of the one who aspires. To believe that Haitians and foreigners are taking away Dominicans livelihoods is rubbish and foolish.When you talk about about resources are limited,what resources are you talking about.The resources that is needed to make a livelihood is infinite and never limited, in other words the power to provide all exist in our minds and imagination. You can have all the Physical resources but if you do not have that imagination to use it to be productive and useful it is useless and just sits in the ground until someone come along with an idea to harness it for some useful purpose. As for that analogy you made regarding the glass and water that to is so foolish. I wonder if you are a Teacher for real “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!” quote Leonardo da Vinci
You shall not mistreat a stranger nor oppress him 4 you were strangers in Egypt Exodus 22:21
Amen.
Who was a stranger in Egypt? Don’t take the scriptures out of context. This section was specifically intended for the Jews (who lived by the LAW)
“what are we they fighting for?” Charity!!!love one another!!!! help each other!!!!encourage on another!!!! don’t bring down your black brothers for a few dollars….
Well I my self will hop them Haitian buses any time before I go on Mahaut buses specifically ……….. .They only worry about their bus and their money. The Haitian bus driver with the sign THANK YOU GOD is the most courteous and pleasant bus driver there is on the Mahaut line.I do believe that some bus drivers should go on hospitality training just like they do with hotel and restaurant staff because some of them don’t realize is a business they have and they need to satisfy their customers with the service they provide. Some of them want to rough up people on their bus,playing any kind of music at what ever volume they want and as for their new style of playing DVD on their buses ;it’s unbelievable what I saw on bus as I rode on a bus on my way home among a few small school children.
I say live the Hatians alone , I am a dominican making a living elsewhere and no body harassing me . If all dominicans were being harrased overseas that would be sad , SO LIVE THE MEN DEM ALONE every body have to eat and make a living some how.
Ask the Haitians why they are not welcome in The Dominican Republic, this is where they need to go and fight for the rights, not in Dominica, coming to compete with our bus drivers, whereas they know that they would not allow people from other nations to come in Haiti and take their livelihood away from them, inside Dominica they are acting nice to Dominicans, whereas outside they are treating us like dirt the very same way the Americans, Canadians, Italians, British/Europeans do, i have no sympathy for them whatsoever
Eat and make a living how and from what? Sure you are in another country because maybe you were not able to find a job in Dominica or you got an opportunity to fulfil your “American Dream”…but it is not the same and I could be certain that you are not making where you are a ghetto…
The police and the Bus Association needs to step in and solve this matter before it gets further out of hand…If these guys are plying their trade legally, then there should not be a problem…Would these Dominican Mahaut bus drivers like to be treated this way in another country if they were working legally?…I think not…Come on guys, grow up and think about what u are doing..
you see there will always be evil. dominican bus drivers do not realize that this is an evil work they are doing, but just make one of them crash their bust they will be fast to jump on hatian and say is evil and voodoo they doing on them.
Ok Dominicans,for the rest of the week we taking only Haitian bus drivers.To hell with dem Mahaut bus drivers.Those haitian bus drivers providing quality service to us,they are very respectful and they appreciate life by taking their time to drive on the road unlike some drivers I know rushing to bring me down Mahaut in one speed,if i doh watch myself when they take de corner is out the window i go. Sometimes i saying to myself I need seatbealt at the back of the bus.ahahahha
Common people we need to help out one another,what if other countries were not helping Dominica you think we would be able to have a stadium,the bridge etc…You all say the Haitians send their money back to Haiti but your family in the US,UK doing the same,sending it right back to Dominica.We need to stop being ignorant and treat those Hatians right.
Shirley, when you say you “taking only Haitian bus drivers” I hope you dont mean what I am thinking
. The reason is we all know that Dcan men are the sweetest so if you insist on “taking only Haitian ” bus drivers then you will be mssing out of Dcan man sweetness 
.
Assertive, NOT Agressive!
stupes shameless! get your mind off the gutter!
The tension level in the country is very high…
No disrespect to our drivers but Tension not high pyehs. Too many of our strong strapping men want to do nothing but drive bus.
Too many innovative, brilliant minds, taking big vehicle loans, tying up the system more, sitting all day waiting, then 1st gear, 2nd gear, 3rd gear. Palay, then nothing more. Too many.
and your point being what? loans are there to be taken.if they were bringing drugs into the country you would not have a problem.there is no pleasure for us Dominicans
Dominicans are xenophobic.
Let it be some white person and they’d be skinning their teeth and adapting their accents.
Part of the perception is that Haitians being black cannot come to our country and compete.
Meanwhile Dominicans are like ants in Guadeloupe and Antigua and the US in particular. Competing at the same level they complain Haitians competing at.
Working class.
All this points to why the country is in such a mess.
A simple people who are getting simpler by the day.
Say it again, Pleb!
we dominicai living in aretreated the same way my fellow citizens it hurts so please stop those things and i am afraid for my fellow citizens u all are in danger right now
remember dominicans live in other countries and if this spreads it could be negative.i have a DA friend taxidriver in toronto.would you like the same to happen to him?
I agree to ur statement…
but 1st ask if any1 gives a 2nd glance of whale **** about ur padna in toronto.
Which is an example of what i would say in my simple days.
I have a funny feeling that if these were Chinese bus drivers, a lot of you guys would have been supporting the stance of the Dominican bus drivers.
Like every other country in the world, whenever foreigners come competing with locals for the few jobs that they have, especially in small poor economies, then this is always a problem for the locals.
True say, the foreign is populated with Dominicans, no one can dispute that. However where ever Dominicans go to they have to conform to the local environment. Dominicans have been persecuted, beaten and even killed for being competitive in foreign countries too you know.
I wonder how many other OECS countries have such an influx of Haitians like Dominica. I would hope that these other countries are taking their fair share of our Haitian brudders and sistas too.
If we had good strong caring governance in this country then there would have been policy in place to protect the locals from foreign competition.
Saying all this, I hope that the law can intervene before this thing turns real violent. I hope the local bus drivers can see that their problem is not with the Haitian brudders but is with the policies governing their country.
Disclaimer: I will be the first to admit that I am a bit protective and bias when it comes to Dominica…
@ A Voice. you wrote:
“I wonder how many other OECS countries have such an influx of Haitians like Dominica. I would hope that these other countries are taking their fair share of our Haitian brudders and sistas too.”
Other OECS countries like Antigua, BVI (which has observer status) too busy taking their fair share of our Dominican brudders and sistas
You cannot compare the closeness of the OECS islands with that of dominica and haiti. Haiti by its share size and desperation can drown out the entire oecs put together. Dominica and the other oecs countries have been having trade and immigration for hundreds of years, haiti just recently came on board and is only in dominica they overloading.
LOL. I’m sorry but u said chinese bus drivers. LAWL. do you even hop buses?
Chinese themselves are racist to start with.
2nd, language BARRIER.
3rd if they start driving buses, prepare for hostile take overs. D/ca don’t have the military strength nor support enough to repel China.
Think they fixing roads and buying property in “Poseau” for kix?
Very true
I can’t believe dominicans would treat haitians this way after all the desaster haiti been through we are all humans and they should all think the same so much dominican trying to servive and have it better in other countries why should we be so low minded we have family all over the worl if they would treat us so what would happen lord guide all of us
especially when we had Hurricane David in 79 and OECS countries took us in no questions asked. I know cos i was one of them who was accommodated
someone made a good point…there should be more bus drivers so competition would decrease the bus fare
that’s not a good point at all because bus fares are now largely determined by fuel prices.
While I understand the Haitians plight, I have to think of my country and my country men first. I frown on the way they are treating these men but we have to understand that finding jobs in Dominica is almost impossible and to have someone from another country take these jobs right from under you is down right frustrating. It is true that Dominicans are all over the globe but the reason for this migration is as a result of no jobs.
How many buses does the Mahaut route contain? If it is 10, 3 foreign bus drivers is a lot to deal with.
It’s only 3 bus drives, but this is more serious on a macro level than meets the eye. As long as they are legal residents it shouldn’t be a problem. Population dynamics and management: The Population is small, there needs to be more means of earning a living, Dominica has space for lots more people; but that needs to be controled.
It boils down to immigration policies so that the influx of immigrants from any one country doesn’t get overwhelming. AND, IT CAN. These are large populations that can quickly flood little Dominica if proper policies are not in place to control the flow of immigrants. The French has policies in place just across the sea from us, that has visa requirements and lets just a certain number of immigrants in due to necessity or shortage in the work force; and make them legal so they can earn a living.
So folks, lighten up. Although we can easily be overrun by large Chinese and Haitian populations it’s only 3 bus drivers we are talking about here. So, immigration policy makers have to be on notice!
Mr Mayor and the Traffic should put some systems in place just like DDA, anyone can buy a bus and go on the road…there should be a process…right now Pte Michel have so many buses, Newtown buses cant get space to park, u hve to pick them up on the road which causes major traffic jams, the population is not increasing that much, is the same amount of ppl but you hve so many buses and everybody want to make a money…so u must have those kinds of problems…and they should also look at the state of some of those buses and the drivers as well…
If the news report is factual and truth be told, the authorities need to intervene. There are laws to govern every aspect of our lives if we don’t want to be civilized.
For the few supporters of this distasteful behavior, let me inform you :1)There are more Dominicans living outside of Dominica and whose bread are they eating. 2)Please afford yourselves some decorum and mindfulness. 3)Always know, what goes around, comes around. 4)If Dominicans had any foresight, there would not be any room for Hatiens to take bread from them. 5)We have become too lazy, inconsiderate, self-serving, forgetful and Dotish.
When a small country like Nevis,have more of our teachers in their high-school, when the taxi stands on St Thomas has more Dominicans than any other nationality, When Antigua Stop trying to find ways to send us home, when Anguillans stop maypwe-zaying us, when St. Marteen cease and decease to tell us get out, when Torlians stop insulting our country and people, when Kittians welcome us with open arms and stop saying “if
OECS Unity means Dum-ni-cans taking over their country, they don’t want it, when England and
Canada will lift their visa restrictions on us, last but
not least, when other islands and people stop
classing us “as the least developed and ignorant “.
Then and only then we can discriminate against another. Go and learn to defend the laws of your country and stop being petty. Look what is going on in Trinidad, the Chief Justice came out and say, and I quote “The Constitution is for Now and Future “.Trinidad just celebrated 50years of independent, their constitution is older than ours and the chief justice appointed by the government let them know, don’t mess with the supreme law of the land, it has nothing to do with politics.
The. Trinbagoians are asking for the minister of justice and also the Attorney General to resign or be fired. Who is the Minister of Justice? Volney a Dominican. Our country’s name is all over the blog. When you try to undermine a country’s Constitution, is warfare only in Dominica we are Lackluster. Go and read what Volney did. Section 34.
So much Dominican Republic women we have in DA selling all kinds of stuff and I doh hear those ignorant Mahaut bus drivers complaining. Maybe they buying too!!
Leave those Haitian alone toneh!!
I have been using the bus service for a number of years. Personally, I prefer to do business with the Haitian bus drivers. I travel with the Mahaut bus drivers for years but when I have my groceries to take home they have a difficulty in dropping me at the closest point to my home. They have to speak all kind of rubbish to me when year after year I am putting money in their pocket. The Haitians on the other hand will not even wait for me to ask them, they will courteously offer assistance although I do not travel with them regularly. Sometimes they will not even take money. Mahaut bus drivers, you can ride with them till Jesus come they will not one day tell you it’s ok. Take a free ride. They will quickly tell you that you gave them a 25 cents for a dollar, not realizing that in the hurry an error was made.
I hope the bus drivers do not let the Haitians make voo doo on them and send busloads of innocent people in a precipice.
Every driver who have the appropriate license to do business in Dominica should and must be allowed so to do. The people who
do not want migrants to live and work in DA should think of the thousands of Dominicans who are living and working in almost EVERY COUNTRY in the Caeibbean and elsewhere. Migrants from DA have been in other counties long, long before we had motorable roads in DA. What is our problem? Would it be ok for our Dominicans to be treated that way, or, dumped back here? Come on!!!!Have a heart.
If you believe in voo doo you’re an idiot! Superstitious BS has caused the down fall of many black populations. You all need to live your lives and stop creating hate through your personal beliefs that only show your primitive brain thought!
Dominicans do more voodoo than Haitians… so what’s your point? Voodoo is a culture in Haiti, but in Dominica it is pure wickedness and hatred stemming from envy and jealousy. I just hate to hear Dominicans speak about Haitians like that, when our culture is so similar.
I am from Haiti, and if a Dominican drove bus in Haiti they would make corned beef out of him in zero time.
its quite unlikely that you will find anyone going to reside in haiti dat long to even drive bus! allu running away from it, y would any sane person go into it? …if it was so lucrative in haiti, y dem haitians dont go back and do the taxi services to help their country?
that being said…everyone is equal ..no one is superior than the next guy, not because of nationality or education or finance or even looks…Bob marley said..” Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned –
Everywhere is war –
Me say war.
that is why black people need to unite….in haiti..if that happens their leaders should discourage it…
Yes, we know. Don’t you see what goes around comes around too? Every hurricane that passes has to pass through Haiti. Your people are still homeless after this massive earthquake years ago. Do evil and you shall see evil. Haitians are so haughty and proud to be Haitians but they are all running away from their country. No Dominicans are going Haiti to live so I highly doubt you would find that bus driver there.
I quite agree with you anonymous. Shame on Haitian in Dominica for that evil comment. You are cetainly not helping the plight of your country men with your stupidity.
Haitian stop acting ignorant. Black people will never prosper because of people like you and those ignorant Dominicans on the bus stop. Haiti is the way it is because you all spend too much time experiment with superstitious garbage rather than nation building. I wouldn’t instigate anything tension here with Dominican bus drivers. Just like you they’re not the brighest bulb in the room and stupid is as stupid does. They can make corn beef out of you on that bus stop too!
you dindt even deserve a respond further more those people that cheer you for your stupid and ignorant pit comment
Llllleeetttssss ssseeee the police are not doing their jobs and the mayor who I also have no time for has to appeal instead of give orders hhhhmmmmm BIG SURPRISE! The most inept bunch of jokers in the Caribbean. They are an embarassment to the country and to black people. Having said that props to the handful of awesome policemen on the force who try their best amidst despair and hopelesness.
GIVE THOSE PEOPLE A BREAK. LET THEM SURVIVE
stupes…….. haitian
think of some dominicans out in the worlld doing what they do best, some crime and the same response goes out STUPES ……. DOOMINICAN
Amazing! being “Haitian” is only a nationality just like being “dominican” but we are all equally human beings. I am very grateful to have been admitted to the United States and to enjoy the privileges alloted to me without trouble. I am sure many other Dominicans feel the same. Even those who despise Haitians have family abroad on whom they depend for “ration”, how would you get your ration if others were to give them the same treatment?
For crying out loud, these people are working legitimately to make a living as opposed to stealing and committing other crimes. Give them a break and treat them as humans.
you wrong to be sending RATION to your family. Sen good ting, shame on you deportee, to be sending ration to your family, haitian sends money not ration, SOT
do you know the definition of the word “ration”?
There are so many Dominicans living in different part of the world, making a living. Let the people live happy. They are not fighting or stealing, work with them as a team.
Very good post..
Not enough hatian bus drivers on the road.
Them Haitian need to understand that all the freedom they have in DA, no Dominican nor any other nationals would be able to have the same in Haiti, no not one
where ever and what ever country they land on they always want to compete with nationals and get their lay way, the things that they are doing in DA, they know for sure that they cannot and not under no way will they be able to do so in another country
For crying out loud, they did not like Dominicans then, what make some of you think that they like you people now
For sure some of what you people are tolerating from them we would never allow them to come in our island and do the , oops forgot sooner or later they will have more rights in you people island then your own people, this is just the taste of many things to come, give them an inch they ask for a yard and more
I wonder if the DA bus drivers reaction would have been the same if the 3 bus drivers were Chinese or any other race/nationality for that matter. We need wake up in this island and do what is right – too much tribalism
I live in the US so i too will be able to help my family back home just as the haitian people do. Haitians are some of the most hard working people i know, working two and three jobs while some of us sit and complain. How dare u treat people like this when majority of our people live in foreign lands.
Dominicans we are the ones who rides the bus and we can take action against these bus drivers who believe they own the bus stop. I personally will ride on only haitain buses when i visit. See how u like dat ignorant asses!
Sak pasee’ my haitian people? now am gonna get me some haitian food……
Some of us would have liked to read a few quotes from the DA busmen too…
dominicans all over the world the majority of us illegal .some working some selling drugs some are robbers and theivs. some unemployed and complaning about how they are treated.most of us have familys from all over sending little of what they have to us . so why the hell are we complaning about chinies doing business and the hatians. are we better than them have God made us superrior then them. stop this and live the people alone.
as long as they respect the laws of the land live them alone
is so we up. Is to See Dominicans scrub floors and wipe dirty diapers in America. Funny thing is, the Haitians in America are way superior than these same Dominicans who trying to treat them so bad. A Haitian in America and a Dominicans in America.. do a comparison to see hold the most lucrative positions. Sorry if i sound harsh but I am Dominicans and I hate to hear the ignorant comments about Haitians. It makes me boil.
We should boycott the Mahaut buses and give the Haitians the business since apparently they are more reliable and couteous to customers. Do the Mahaut drivers believe that because they are born Dominicans then they have the monopoly. STUPES
I am saddened by the treatment towards the Haitian people, this must stop. We Dominicans go abroad and try to make a living and so the haitians are doing the same so give them a chance.
Is no the haitians that tell the uneducated bus drivers not to go to school to work in an office
D/cans need to be made to understand that if the Haitians carry D/can passports they are now Dominicans and no longer Haitians and are entitled to the same opportunities and privileges like every other by birth Dominican.
This anti-Haitian attitude is not good for our image. I was very proud of my country for extending an open arm to our Haitian brothers and sisters. Now, let’s work to get them all naturalized and get the protection and rights of every D/can citizen.
Whenever a country creates a second class of citizens and put that group on the fringe of the society then that group of people will do anything to survive, and the consequence is a high level of crime. Who do you think is behind most of the crime in T/dad? It is the decedents of some of the Eastern Caribbean islands especially Grenadians and Vincentians who were denied opportunities by the T/dad government.
That is absolutely horrible. What are we fighting the Haitains who are here legally and trying to survive? I fully support those bloggers that noted that we Dominicans are in the US, UK, Antigua, and all of the world working and supporting ourselves and our families. I wonder how some of them would react if they hear of harrasment of Dominicans in other countries. shameful
The business community in Roseau should follow the actions of the bus drivers.Their are so many Chinese stores in Roseau,depriving the established Roseau small businesses of making a decent living and we allow them Chinese to flourish.
See doc love thats why i can’t take u guys serious cause u guys always inciting war these driver’s are wrong,but what can i say,u back warmongers u guys come on here and spread your hate,when it’s wrong u guys say its wrong when its right u guys say its still wrong.
I agree with you, let us boycott them Chinese
store
yeah i’m going to Haiti to drive bus soon too….Now lets see how long my tongue gonna stay in my mouth to even report and talk bout desrespect…But still the Haitian people need to eat too. they are here right ??…..a couple years back all Calypsonians were crysinging on the behalf of haiti…i even thought i was haitian at 1 point….so relax people and leave the people alone
ahwa wii Dominicans, we need to stop that discriminatory thing we have against the Haitians…not everybody that is the same. Put yourselves in dem people place….I wouldn’t like to be in a foreign land trying to make it for me to be going through those things there as a Dominican. We must stop that.
If you want to talk and see discrimination, u need to migrate to another country where there are Haitians to see how those very same Haitians treat Dominicans and other islanders
What the Haitians need to know is what goes around comes around, like it or not, learn to treat other people with respect in other countries and the same will be given to you
having Dominican passport does not mean that they are more Dominicans, sooner our later more will flock your island,when they deport them from the USA and Canada, because all those flocking your islands are deportee, why all of a sudden they discover the island of Dominica, those Haitians reminds me of the Mexicans in the USA, Dominicans need to put their foot down or too late will be their cries
There are Dominicans who treat people very badly, do you think the mass should reap what these few Dominicans sow? Should you, a Dominican, be penalized for what another Dominican did? There is no reason why these grown “supposedly” men should bully other bus drivers because of their nationality. No justification for such actions. Cha man!
Wrong attitude
Dominicana are being discriminated by their own. I am working for a company right here in DA, Why is it that the Haitians are being paid more by this company than we Dominicans?, can someone please explain this to me, when many of you keep saying that Dominicans seat on their behinds doing nothing and the Haitians are working hard, no one is addressing these issues, the business places, those in construction etc knows exactly what they are doing.
Why would I work when my fellow co-worker who is Haitian show me his pay where he is getting more money than myself for the very same work, so to all talking about discrimination , this is all around us on the island, Dominicans are being discriminated ans stereotype by their own, something that will not take place in Haiti, giving Dominicans preference over their people, like it or not this is the truth
@ J thats your side then theres the haitian side then theres the boss side then theres the truth.
Dominicans hello, the world is reading this, some of you all people are so racist, do you know Dominican live in other country, you bush mind greedy people, do you have family abroad, bad mine people like you all make it bad for other hard working people , haitian are well love people around the world, their country are in a crisis , it don’t means you all have to be so hard on them, they are people, would you like to hear every port a Dominican arrived they need a visa, watch what you are to immigrants the world is round, take my doom advise, I am a proud Dominican, I know Dominica life is hard,if you make $50.00, your haitian brother can makes $25.00 don’t worry the good lord will provide, he will gives you more on your plates so you will have enough to share,
The Haitians, as long as they are legal, we should have no problem. We go about in the USA, Canada, Guadeloupe, Antigua and St. Croix (Just to name a few) we drive buses, work in hotels etc. Who runs after us if we are legal?
Everybody needs to make a dollar. If you have built your clientele, and operate your bus as a professional, no Haitian can come and take your passengers!!The Haitians are more reliable! They drive their bus and do their business!! They do not over charge people and they do not drive crazy like some of our locals!! Additionally, they drop us where we want to go, and do not hesitate to return for us if need be!! They are also respectful!!! Now this is service!!!!!
support u 100 percent
You are so correct. There are Dominicans working in every part of the world including Haiti, because I know of two Dominicans who have been working in Haiti for a number of years in high paying jobs.
This is nothing but discrimination. These bus drivers should be ashamed of themselves, and they should stop immediately. I know Moise, who worked as a mechanic for years before buying his bus, but for the last few years he has been driving his bus. What is the problem now?
If a Dominican driver do the same in haiti, the haitian drivers would kill him!!!
This is irrelevant to the topic under discussion. This is about justice for all who are citizens as well as naturalized citizens in Dominica.
Bigotry and ignorance has no place in a healthy world.
“IF” is contrary to the fact. You are trying to justify the D’can’s behavior by a supposition. Get real, please
What is your point? If the same thing happens in Haiti then we as Dominicans are just showing the Haitians that we are no better than them. If these guys have been working in Dominica legally for 3 years then surely they deserve the equal right to earn money. The haitians are a people just like you and me. This hitler attitude of wanting to surpress the haitians must stop.
wow well that is exactly how I and a few others feel about the chinese, but I don’t see any one protesting outside Lee Unit! The Hatian immigrants on the other hand, I can sympathize with, they have undergone so many trials. Sometimes I do feel that they shouldnt be here, but that is not our job to decide, and threats are not the way to drive them out. Over time I have realized that Hatians are had working people and that is something Dominicans on a whole should emulate instead of issuing threats of violence
If you are so sympathetic why do you feel that they should not be here – sometimes? If they are hard working people like you stated and legal to boot then they have every right to be here.
I do agree with your comment. I feel more strongly about the Chinese than I do the Haitians. The Chinese initially came and I was under the impression were being allowed to go into manufacturing etc and create employment, but that is obviously not the case, in fact they are competing with an already struggling local business environment in retal. The Chinese do not integrate into any society, everywhere they go they have their own community. Dominicans also need to know what is the understanding Dominica has with China, it is beyond time that this is made public. With regard the bus drivers, the local drivers need not harass and abuse the Haitians, if they have a problem with the influx, bring it to the Government, make your opinions known.
That’s why they do not have bank accounts, they save their monies in the homes and on them wherever they goes
we all know the next step they ‘might’ take…. if the authorities don’t intervene and help them… i see no need for the violence…
Is so some dominicans foolish,stupid and ignorant.they not thinking of thier families that overseas ILLEGAL and working in another country.Give the haitains men a break.
Woy woy woy. Someting happening. Welp
I travel on all buses, once I’m getting to my destination safe! Dominican bus drivers need to stop that. All that is discrimination. Idk wat haitian do dominicans but they just doe like them @ all.
Off topic::haiti have some nice woman we boi. Allu doesn’t see them pics on c/bean baddest males/females page. It seems like is dem ugly ones that does come here. Lol lol
I know things are had in dominica but i dont like to hear things like that about my black people please take care of that problem we all must eat bread am are Dominican living and working outside of dominica and am happy to make are living in Antigua the same way like this guys that are not from d/a. But working am not there so i dont know all of what the problem is but i know thay can take care of it very soon .and befor i go i must say arte BIG THANKS TO THE PEOPLE AND G/M OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA FOR LETING ME MAKE ARE LIVING NOW AFTER OVER 11 YEARS I CAN SAY I WORK HAD AND HAVE SOMETHING I COULD NOT HAVE AFTER WORKING HAD IN DOMINICA WHERE AM FROM BUT THATS HOW LIFE GOS JUST LIKE IT HAS LOTS OF ANTIGUANS ALL OVER IN THE U.S MAKING ARE LIVING FOR THEM SELF WE JUST HAVE TO GIVE GOD THINKS .to all d/a ppl one love and are bless day
My dear Dominicans, we have to watch what we are doing to persons who come to our country to seek a better life for themselves and their families.
We have more Dominicans outside of Domnica that are leaving in countries with the natives and are edoing the same work that they are doing.
why we can work out there and someone cannot come here to work?
we must not be unfear.
All the people tha are complaining they have fmilies that were born in Domnica and are working in another country.
Do not do unfearness to others that are trying to make a leaving.
God is watching us.
so i gather that he’s reported to the police and they aren’t doing anything…..what a lovely country it is where people are allowed to constantly threaten and harass another individual as much as they please….cant he take them to court?
Some of the Mahaut bus drivers believe that they own this thing, and that no one else should be able to run “their” route. This is nonsense. I am sure that if the oportunity surfaces where a Dominican would go overseas and was able to put a bus on the road to make a living, that would not happen cause as long as taxes and other fees are paid ALL SHALL EAT.
After all, things already bad for local bus drivers, no bananas, no public works,no tourists, so y should haitians cut the bread of locals? haitian money not staying here, all going back haiti; we need tax to be paid to pay teachers to educate our children; haitians came here to work agriculture, not to drive bus, i agree with the Mahaut bus drivers; haitians should go on the estates… i would never use a haitian bus ..
Possie,
I believe you’re more foolish than any fool. You need Jesus in your live more than ever before.
Have blessed day!
your mout is yours, just as my mout is mine, i say how i feel, haitin-dominique, it looks like they working voo voo for you. sakway sot
but you would go overseas and expect them to treat you equally with their citizens right?
I am sure you have relatives overseas. That is what you want for them?
Think before you speak.
To read such ignorance is beyond belief.
Think twice my brother>>>>
After all, things already bad for the american economy; just look at the news. So y should Dominicans cut the bread of the North Americans? It so tight, your family in USA cannot even send you the regular barrels again. Things so tight in Dominica…but because it tight too in USA, you have to send up the money wiii…if you want christmas barrel.>>>>>>>>Make them Dominicans in USA go and clean the drains and pick up poop. What if the americans stop patronising our Dominicans’ business or the businesses they work for in the USA? Point: Be careful what we think, say and do! Would you like it to happen to you or your family? Haitians are people too…check it out: Dominica has such a small population. We have migrated to search for a better living albeit in countries where the economy is suffering too.
@Possie, you are a racist fool to the highest degree. that is why Dominica is so backward. People like has no place on this earth…….
POSSI, DOE MAKE MI SHAME! I am from Portsmouth and I have haitians for neighbours ii find them to be pleasent ppl, i have n problem sharing with them when they have nothing… && their $$ stayin there!!! U kno y? Cuz their entire family escape from those belittling conditions in haiti,,, Most of them dont come here to make a problem, they cum here TO BE ABLE TO LET THEIR CHILDREN HAVE A BETTER LIFE THAN THEY DID…U WUD DO THE SAME FOR YOUR CHILDREN! Yes we hear bout haitians and voodoo but we should not stereotype, i’m 18, i’m sure u older than me… Knock sum sence into ur head and type another comment!!! URGH, is cuz of ppl like u possi duzen move foreward!
say it possie, the truth always hurts
i see no reason for the Haitian bus drivers to be treated differently form the Dominican drivers,too many people try to take advantage of these people and we tend to just let it pass by..we Dominicans too go to other countries and work just as the Haitians come here to work sometimes illegally..give the people a break and stop discriminating against them..they are humans just as us
That is really not nice, if that is true..
black people let us help out one another